Government of India initiative against leprosy—We should be aware

Hypertension and children: should we be aware?

Hypertension and Children Should We Be Aware? To the Editor: We read with interest the article of Rosner et al1 about trends of high blood pressure in children. The results of this study are of great concern. Thus, this study showed that between 1988–1994 and 1999–2008, the prevalence of hypertension in children aged 8 to 17 years increased from 15.8% to 19.2% (P=0.057) in boys and from 8.2% to...

Garbage Collection Should Be Lifetime Aware

We argue that garbage collection should be more closely tied to object demographics. We show that this behaviour is sufficiently distinctive to make exploitation feasible and describe a novel GC framework that exploits object lifetime analysis yet tolerates imprecision. We argue for future collectors based on combinations of approximate analyses and dynamic sampling.

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

Vaccination against polio should not be stopped

| The striking 50-year-long decline in the incidence of poliomyelitis has stalled in the past 7 years, which has led to calls for an urgent re-assessment of eradication and post-eradication campaign strategies. The current plan of eliminating the circulation of wild poliovirus so that further immunization will be unnecessary does not take into account recent scientific data and political realit...

Why the Federal Government Should Be Involved in School Accountability